Mark Rober just set up one of the most interesting self-driving tests of 2025, and he did it by imitating Looney Tunes. The former NASA engineer and current YouTube mad scientist recreated the classic gag where Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel onto a wall to fool the Road Runner. Only this time, the test […]

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    5 hours ago

    I probably should have said “only cameras”. Subaru, like the rest, backs the cameras up with radar to avoid situations like in the video.

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      I think I accidentally deleted my post so sorry if this is a duplicate.

      I can poke around in my wife’s outback to verify again, but as far as I’m aware, Subaru doesn’t have any forward radars. Having a set of properly calibrated stereo cameras works amazingly well though. Whatever Tesla is attempting, while still kinda impressive, isn’t nearly as polished with the number of phantom breaking events and stuff like this I see complained about online.

      Blind spot I believe is radar, and backward is a combination of sonar and radar if I’m not mistaken.

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      I can poke around in my wife’s outback to verify again, but as far as I’m aware, Subaru doesn’t have any forward radars. Having a set of properly calibrated stereo cameras works amazingly well though. Whatever Tesla is attempting, while still kinda impressive, isn’t nearly as polished from what I see with the number of phantom breaking events and stuff like this I see complained about online.

      Blind spot I believe is radar, and backward is a combination of sonar and radar if I’m not mistaken.